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The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

15 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth
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There Is No Place for Us

Working and Homeless in America

by Brian Goldstone ...

Narrated by Brian Goldstone, Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

13 hours 19 min

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An
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When Crack Was King

A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey ...

Narrated by Donovan X. Ramsey ...

Unabridged

11 hours 33 min

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic“A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post“A poignant ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic“A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post“A poignant
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The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Volume 1

by Robert A. Caro ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

22 hours 23 min

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that ... Read more

$24.00 USD

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that
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Four Lost Cities

A Secret History of the Urban Age

by Annalee Newitz ...

Narrated by Chloe Cannon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation ... Read more

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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation
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Trash!

A Garbageman's Story

by Simon Paré-Poupart ...

Narrated by Jean Brassard ...

Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started ... Read more

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A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started
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The Death Gap

How Inequality Kills

by David A. Ansell ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of ... Read more

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The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of
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Language City

The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

by Ross Perlin ...

Narrated by Ross Perlin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. Perlin recounts the unique history of ... Read more

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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. Perlin recounts the unique history of
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ドバイ小史：真珠採りの時代から超高層ビルの時代へ

by 守谷智也 ...

Narrated by 守谷智也 ...

Unabridged

1 hour 58 min

砂漠の過酷な辺境に過ぎなかった小さな港町が、いかにして世界屈指のメガシティへと変貌を遂げたのか、中東史と都市開発の軌跡を鮮やかに描き出します。日々の通勤時間や知的好奇心を満たしたい夜のひとときに、広大な砂漠と海が交差する熱気あふれるアラビア半島のダイナミズムへとあなたを誘います。単なる石油による恩恵という表面的な成功物語ではなく、真珠採りたちの息遣いから緻密なインフラ投資の戦略まで、為政者と人々の選択が生み出した光と影を俯瞰します。約二時間の凝縮されたリスニング体験は、ニュースや観光ガイドの奥に隠された、複雑で人間味あふれるグローバル都市の真の姿を解き明かしてくれるでしょう。本書で見つかること:• 砂漠と海に囲まれた厳しい自然環境で生き抜いた、真珠採りたちの暮らしと産業の盛衰• 単純な「石油の発見」にとどまらない、港湾や空港への先見的なインフラ投資と緻密な制度設計• ... Read more

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砂漠の過酷な辺境に過ぎなかった小さな港町が、いかにして世界屈指のメガシティへと変貌を遂げたのか、中東史と都市開発の軌跡を鮮やかに描き出します。日々の通勤時間や知的好奇心を満たしたい夜のひとときに、広大な砂漠と海が交差する熱気あふれるアラビア半島のダイナミズムへとあなたを誘います。単なる石油による恩恵という表面的な成功物語ではなく、真珠採りたちの息遣いから緻密なインフラ投資の戦略まで、為政者と人々の選択が生み出した光と影を俯瞰します。約二時間の凝縮されたリスニング体験は、ニュースや観光ガイドの奥に隠された、複雑で人間味あふれるグローバル都市の真の姿を解き明かしてくれるでしょう。本書で見つかること:• 砂漠と海に囲まれた厳しい自然環境で生き抜いた、真珠採りたちの暮らしと産業の盛衰• 単純な「石油の発見」にとどまらない、港湾や空港への先見的なインフラ投資と緻密な制度設計•
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Earthopolis

A Biography of Our Urban Planet

by Carl H. Nightingale ...

Narrated by Jennifer Woodward ...

Unabridged

32 hours 9 min

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world’s cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new ... Read more

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This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world’s cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new
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Housing Crisis, Explained, The: Why Homes Cost So Much and What We Can Do to Fix It in Our Own Cities and Lives

by Andrew Keller ...

Narrated by Andrew Keller ...

Unabridged

1 hour 57 min

Demystify the modern housing crisis and navigate today's brutal real estate market with clear, actionable economics. Whether you are actively house hunting, struggling to afford rent, or just trying to make sense of alarming headlines, this grounded deep-dive replaces anxiety with practical understanding.Trace the historical roots of suburban growth, zoning laws, and mortgage finance to see ... Read more

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Demystify the modern housing crisis and navigate today's brutal real estate market with clear, actionable economics. Whether you are actively house hunting, struggling to afford rent, or just trying to make sense of alarming headlines, this grounded deep-dive replaces anxiety with practical understanding.Trace the historical roots of suburban growth, zoning laws, and mortgage finance to see
... Read more
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PIMPS THE RAW TRUTH

GRAND INQUISITOR LEVEL PIMPNOLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS

by Eric Culpepper ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G ...

Unabridged

9 hours 9 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Nederlands and Руски audiobooks available via Google or Spotify web search.Tired of reading the same old boring books? Pimps: The Raw Truth: Grand Inquisitor Level Pimpnological Conclusions is a sheltered mind-blowing, gross misconception shattering literary excursion into a parallel dimension that has perpetually ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Nederlands and Руски audiobooks available via Google or Spotify web search.Tired of reading the same old boring books? Pimps: The Raw Truth: Grand Inquisitor Level Pimpnological Conclusions is a sheltered mind-blowing, gross misconception shattering literary excursion into a parallel dimension that has perpetually
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Urbanes Miteinander aktiv gestalten

So kannst du Lärm und Hektik entfliehen und echte Gemeinschaft finden.

by Jonas Weidmann ...

Narrated by Alexander (AI) ...

Series Audiobook 15 - Jonas Weidmann
Unabridged

35 min

Fühlst du dich im Großstadtdschungel oft gestresst? Möchtest du Lärm und Hektik entfliehen, ohne gleich aufs Land zu ziehen? Dann ist dieses Großstadtleben Ratgeber Hörbuch genau das Richtige für dich. Städte sind faszinierende Labore der Vielfalt, aber durch Enge oft auch herausfordernde Konfliktzonen. Doch das muss nicht so bleiben.In diesem Hörbuch lernst du praxisnahe Strategien kennen, um die ... Read more

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Fühlst du dich im Großstadtdschungel oft gestresst? Möchtest du Lärm und Hektik entfliehen, ohne gleich aufs Land zu ziehen? Dann ist dieses Großstadtleben Ratgeber Hörbuch genau das Richtige für dich. Städte sind faszinierende Labore der Vielfalt, aber durch Enge oft auch herausfordernde Konfliktzonen. Doch das muss nicht so bleiben.In diesem Hörbuch lernst du praxisnahe Strategien kennen, um die
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Buda's Wagon

A Brief History of the Car Bomb

by Mike Davis ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs—the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destructionOn a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing forty people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a "poor man's air force," a ... Read more

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The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs—the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destructionOn a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing forty people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a "poor man's air force," a
... Read more
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Tightrope

Americans Reaching for Hope

by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...

Narrated by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Jennifer Garner ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this ... Read more

$20.00 USD

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this
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Why Cities Lose

The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide

by Jonathan A. Rodden ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

10 hours 13 min

A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond.Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the ... Read more

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A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond.Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the
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Amazing Grace

The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

by Jonathan Kozol ...

Narrated by Dick Hill ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

Amazing Grace is an audiobook about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx—the poorest congressional district of our nation.The children we meet through the deepening friendships that evolve between Jonathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Amazing Grace is an audiobook about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx—the poorest congressional district of our nation.The children we meet through the deepening friendships that evolve between Jonathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak
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Demography of the West, The

A Civilisation at the Crossroads

by Nathan Leon Webb ...

Narrated by Nathan Leon Webb ...

Unabridged

4 hours 19 min

How did a civilisation that once seemed destined to grow forever begin to shrink?The Demography of the West opens on the Swan coastal plain — three displacements that are not the same story: First Nations dispossession, a settler family priced out of Fremantle, and a Perth suburb reshaped after the pandemic by migration, housing pressure, and birth rates below replacement. From that human scale, ... Read more

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How did a civilisation that once seemed destined to grow forever begin to shrink?The Demography of the West opens on the Swan coastal plain — three displacements that are not the same story: First Nations dispossession, a settler family priced out of Fremantle, and a Perth suburb reshaped after the pandemic by migration, housing pressure, and birth rates below replacement. From that human scale,
... Read more
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Big Thrive, The: Volume 1

by Sage Eddie Tatu Harris ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series series The Big Thrive
Unabridged

27 hours 44 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Humanity stands at a crossroads, caught between the accelerating pull of physical and social decay. In this opening installment of the groundbreaking 10-volume compendium, The Big Thrive introduces the framework of Intersectional Pacifist Social Anarchism (IPSA)—a radical, hard-science lens that reframes our collective ethical mandate as a literal ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Humanity stands at a crossroads, caught between the accelerating pull of physical and social decay. In this opening installment of the groundbreaking 10-volume compendium, The Big Thrive introduces the framework of Intersectional Pacifist Social Anarchism (IPSA)—a radical, hard-science lens that reframes our collective ethical mandate as a literal
... Read more
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Saving Ourselves from Big Car

by David Obst ...

Narrated by Jonathan Sleep ...

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min

Cars are killing people and making the planet uninhabitable. Crashes take the lives of more than a million people each year. Air pollution linked to motor vehicles contributes to even more untimely deaths. Highways and unsafe streets have devastated cities, yet traffic congestion still swallows up countless hours. And carbon emissions from transportation are a key driver of climate change, which ... Read more

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Cars are killing people and making the planet uninhabitable. Crashes take the lives of more than a million people each year. Air pollution linked to motor vehicles contributes to even more untimely deaths. Highways and unsafe streets have devastated cities, yet traffic congestion still swallows up countless hours. And carbon emissions from transportation are a key driver of climate change, which
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Streets for People: Redesigning Urban Spaces for Walkability in Car-Free Cities

by S Williams ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Unabridged

2 hours 7 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era of rapid urbanization and growing environmental concerns, the movement toward car-free cities is gaining momentum as a transformative solution for modern urban living. This book dives deep into the principles of walkable urban spaces , offering a comprehensive guide to creating pedestrian-friendly design that prioritizes people over vehicles. ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era of rapid urbanization and growing environmental concerns, the movement toward car-free cities is gaining momentum as a transformative solution for modern urban living. This book dives deep into the principles of walkable urban spaces , offering a comprehensive guide to creating pedestrian-friendly design that prioritizes people over vehicles.
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

by Elizabeth Hinton ...

Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

Unabridged

13 hours 9 min

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ... Read more

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In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an
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Gay New York

Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by George Chauncey ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

18 hours 40 min

The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the ... Read more

$38.99 USD

The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the
... Read more
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Cities in the Sky

The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

by Jason M. Barr ...

Narrated by Kirby Heyborne ...

Unabridged

11 hours 7 min

From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity. But, decade by decade, they keep ... Read more

$26.99 USD

From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity. But, decade by decade, they keep
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